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Young girls going to work in Mill No. 1 Cocheco Mfg. Co., Dover, N.H. I saw them go to work regularly, day after day. May 17, 1909--Noon. Location: Dover, New Hampshire

Young girls going to work in Mill No. 1 Cocheco Mfg. Co., Dover, N.H. ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 775-A. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisi... More

Saturday afternoon ball game. Boys all work in the Natick (R. I.) Mills. Location: Natick, Rhode Island.

Saturday afternoon ball game. Boys all work in the Natick (R. I.) Mill...

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Noon hour, Milleville [i.e., Millville?] Bottle Works, N.J. All work there, except tiny boy on end. Location: Millville, New Jersey.

Noon hour, Milleville [i.e., Millville?] Bottle Works, N.J. All work t...

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Workers in the Phoenix Mill, Phoenix, R.I. Boy left hand end, Joseph Le Vier is beginning to work. Next, Regina La Plant (has worked 1/2 year). Next Rosabell La Plant (2 years). Next Armond La Plant (2 years). Speaks no English. Location: Phoenix, Rhode Island.

Workers in the Phoenix Mill, Phoenix, R.I. Boy left hand end, Joseph L...

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Great Falls Mfg. Co. Boy on left hand is William Dosmaris, 2 Hornes Court. Been working 6 months. Boy on right hand Albert Papin (13 years old now), 77 Main Street. Is a "helper." Works after school. Four of his sisters work in the mill. Two of them began at 11 years old. May 18, 1909. Location: Somersworth, New Hampshire.

Great Falls Mfg. Co. Boy on left hand is William Dosmaris, 2 Hornes Co...

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Men Help New York State Woman Suffrage Association Raise Fund for Legislative Work in Albany

Men Help New York State Woman Suffrage Association Raise Fund for Legi...

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Young girls working in American Woolen Mills, Winooski, Vt. Most are illiterate. Work slack, force small. 27 children apparently under 15 years were counted at one gate. (See also N.C.L.C. Photos #720-745 May 1909.) Location: Winooski, Vermont.

Young girls working in American Woolen Mills, Winooski, Vt. Most are i...

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Applying for subway work - Public domain portrait photograph

Applying for subway work - Public domain portrait photograph

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Sunday morning by the river. All of these boys work in Washington Cotton Mills, Fries, Virginia Smallest boy doffs. Asked him his age, and he said, after hesitation, "I don't know." One of his chums said, "You told me the other day you were ten years old." He appeared to be. Location: Fries, Virginia.

Sunday morning by the river. All of these boys work in Washington Cott...

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Steve Romeo, and Wince[?] Pizlow, both are shuckers in the Barataria Canning Company. I saw the smallest one going to work at 5 A.M. at Gorenflo's Canning Factory, on Mar. 5th. Location: Biloxi, Mississippi.

Steve Romeo, and Wince[?] Pizlow, both are shuckers in the Barataria C...

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Group of oyster shuckers working in canning factory of Dunbar, Lopez, Dukate Co. All but the very smallest babies work. All began at 3:30 A.M. expected to work until 5 P.M. The little girl in center working. Her mother says she is a real help to her. About 300 workers. Location: Dunbar, Louisiana

Group of oyster shuckers working in canning factory of Dunbar, Lopez, ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 2050. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div... More

Groups of workers in Clayton (N.C.) Cotton Mills. Every one went in to work when whistle blew, and I saw most of them at work during the morning when I went through. Mr. W.H. Swift talked with a boy recently who said he was ten years old and works in the Clayton Cotton Mill, also that others the same age worked. Here they are. I couldn't get the youngest girls in the photos. Clayton is but a short ride from the State Capitol. (The Superintendent watched the photographing without comment.) Clayton, North Carolina

Groups of workers in Clayton (N.C.) Cotton Mills. Every one went in to...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 3103. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

6 P.M. Callabria family, 647 E. 12th St., N.Y. (see schedule) Mother finishes clothing. The children paste needle packages onto cards and said they all work at times until 10 or 11 P.M. They are 9, 12, 14 and 15 years old and all go to school. They are undersized. The baby in the cart is one month old. Location: New York, New York (State)

6 P.M. Callabria family, 647 E. 12th St., N.Y. (see schedule) Mother f...

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Night scene. 7:30 P.M. January 29, 1912. Making violets, and they often work later. Pollinni family, 5 Carmine St., N.Y. living in a reary [i.e., rear.] tenement. The six year old helps some. The eight, ten, and twelve year olds work later than this at times. Brothers, 15 and 17 years old, work in factory. Location: New York, New York (State)

Night scene. 7:30 P.M. January 29, 1912. Making violets, and they ofte...

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Night Work! Group of boys, all working in Massey Hosiery Mills, Columbus, Ga. Most of them had been working all day and had an hour for supper and were going back into the mill (6:00 P.M.) to work until 8 P.M. as they have done several nights this week and for some time past. I found 4 ten year olds and several of 11 and 12 working in the evening after supper and they said it was a regular thing. Ferrell i.e., Terrell? Butler, 10 yrs old, 1114 21st St., been working off and on 1 yr. Marvin Williams, 11 yrs. old been working 1 yr. part of the time at night. Lawrence Webb, 12 yrs. Old. Jack Wright, 15? yrs. working 3 yrs., couldn't write his own name. Are working nights now, as well as the following who were not in these photos. Gordon Stone, 10 yrs. old. Rufus Matthews, 10 yrs. old, works before and after school and nights some. Lives 1171 27th? Street, and Harry McElroy, 10 yrs. old night ... Location: Columbus, Georgia

Night Work! Group of boys, all working in Massey Hosiery Mills, Columb...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 3422. Text smudged and portions cut off on caption card. Completed on basis of similar caption (#3433). Credit li... More

Night Work! Group of boys, all working in Massey Hosiery Mills, Columbus, Ga. Most of them had been working all day and had an hour for supper and were going back into the mill (6:00 P.M.) to work until 8 P.M. as they have done several nights this week and for some time past. I found four ten year olds and several of 11 and 12 working in the evening after supper and they said it was a regular thing. Terrell Butler, 10 yrs. old, 1114 21st Street. Been working off and on 1 yr. Marvin Williams, 11 yrs. old been working one year part of the time at night. Lawrence Webb, 12 yrs. old, Jack Wright, 15 yrs., working 3 yrs, couldn't write his own name. Are working nights now, as well as the following who were not in these photos. Gordon Stone, 10 yrs. old, Rufus Matthews, 10 yrs. old, works before and after school and nights some. Lives 1171 27th Street, and Harry McElroy, 10 yrs. old. Nights. Location: Columbus, Georgia

Night Work! Group of boys, all working in Massey Hosiery Mills, Columb...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 3433. Text on the caption card is badly smudged. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library ... More

Norman Hall, 210 Park Street, Lindale, Ga. Went to work over a year ago in Massachusetts Mills at 10 12 years old. Family Record says born Oct. 26, 1901. Doffing. No real reason for his work as father and several others are working. Location: Lindale, Georgia

Norman Hall, 210 Park Street, Lindale, Ga. Went to work over a year ag...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 3383. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

[Printed page of text: "What Some Children Have Done to Help the Children Who Work."]

[Printed page of text: "What Some Children Have Done to Help the Child...

These four children of H.T. Thompson, 267 A Street all work in the Merrimack Mill. The youngest, a girl, has been there three years. See Hine report. Location: Huntsville, Alabama.

These four children of H.T. Thompson, 267 A Street all work in the Mer...

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Wilson Dry Goods Company, large department store. Employs large number of youngsters as cash-boys and wrappers. Counted seven apparently 9 to 12 years old, one 9 and other 10. Week's work consists of nearly 65 hours, usually. Location: Jacksonville, Florida.

Wilson Dry Goods Company, large department store. Employs large number...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commerce, shopping, main street, city downtown, early 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Wilson Dry Goods Company, large department store. Employs large number of youngsters as cashboys and wrappers. Counted seven apparently 9 to 12 years old, one 9 and other 10. Week's work consists of nearly 65 hours, usually. Location: Jacksonville, Florida.

Wilson Dry Goods Company, large department store. Employs large number...

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[Mrs. Dora Stainers, 562 1/2 Decatur St. 39 years old. Began spinning in an Atlanta mill at 7 years, and is in this mill work for 32 years. Only 4 days of schooling in her life. Began at 20 cents a day. The most she ever made was $1.75 a day & now she is earning $1 a day when she works. She is looking for a job. Her little girl Lilie is the same age she was when she started work, but the mother says, "I ain't goin to put her to work if I can help it. I'm goin' to give her as much education as I can so she can do better than I did." Mrs. Stainers is a woman of exceptional ability considering her training. In contrast to her is formed [?] another woman (this name was withheld) who has been working in Atlanta mills for 10 yrs. She began at 10 yrs. of age, married at 12, broke down, and may never be able to work again. Her mother went to work in the cotton mill very young.] Location: [Atlanta, Georgia].

[Mrs. Dora Stainers, 562 1/2 Decatur St. 39 years old. Began spinning ...

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Work of wood carving. Class of working boys at King Philip Settlement. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts / Lewis W. Hine.

Work of wood carving. Class of working boys at King Philip Settlement....

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Remember the girl behind the man behind the gun--Y.W.C.A. War Work Council / M.B.

Remember the girl behind the man behind the gun--Y.W.C.A. War Work Cou...

Poster showing a young woman in white reaching out from a blue triangle, symbol of War Work Council relief efforts.

A poster which was displayed throughout the South of France. The work of the American Red Cross among the Mutiles has now become a great factor in the French and American hospitals, and the Red Cross has been largely responsible for this work, and it's phenomenal success. Capt. Atherton-Smith was the organizer

A poster which was displayed throughout the South of France. The work ...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC. Commission to France. Group title: Poster. France. Data: Atlantic Div. 3/8/1... More

German prisoners at work. German prisoners do much of the work for the American Red Cross at its Salonika Warehouses. It's work they are glad to do, for the big barrel labeled "flour" are more precious than the pasha's jewels in this part of the world where they had almost begun to believe the chief ingredient for bread didn't exist. The Red Cross has now stacked seven huge warehouses full of such supplies, including large medical store

German prisoners at work. German prisoners do much of the work for the...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC, Balkan Commission. Group title: Greece, Supplies. Used in: Ex. Western Newsp... More

Union Paving Co. At work paving in front of Library of Congress

Union Paving Co. At work paving in front of Library of Congress

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Folger Library copy work. Frontispiece of a Shakespeare play

Folger Library copy work. Frontispiece of a Shakespeare play

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At work. Juniors of Emporia, Kansas, at work on garments for needy children the world over

At work. Juniors of Emporia, Kansas, at work on garments for needy chi...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: S.W. Division. Group title: Jr. Red Cross. U.S. Gift; American National Red Cross... More

Folger Library copy work. Page from book

Folger Library copy work. Page from book

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To Bain News Service for your good work, Sincerely, B. Gigli --- N.Y., 4/15/21 -- full print

To Bain News Service for your good work, Sincerely, B. Gigli --- N.Y.,...

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Work & M.L. Eidsness, Jr., 10/2/22

Work & M.L. Eidsness, Jr., 10/2/22

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Ain' Aint it a shame to work on Sunday

Ain' Aint it a shame to work on Sunday

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James R. Garfield, W.L. Fisher, Hubert Work, J.B. Payne

James R. Garfield, W.L. Fisher, Hubert Work, J.B. Payne

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Hubert Work swearing in M.J. Glover as 2nd Asst. P.M.G., 8/1/25

Hubert Work swearing in M.J. Glover as 2nd Asst. P.M.G., 8/1/25

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President Coolidge displays great interest in the progress of the work being done on the White House

President Coolidge displays great interest in the progress of the work...

Calvin Coolidge watching men working on the White House. National Photo Company Collection. No. 41232.

Folger Library copy work. Page from manuscript III

Folger Library copy work. Page from manuscript III

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Folger Library copy work. Portion of title page of collected works

Folger Library copy work. Portion of title page of collected works

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Folger Library copy work. Document from Folger Library III

Folger Library copy work. Document from Folger Library III

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Folger Library copy work. Manuscript pages from Folger Library I

Folger Library copy work. Manuscript pages from Folger Library I

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Folger Library copy work. Title page from 1623 edition of Shakespeare's works with portrait

Folger Library copy work. Title page from 1623 edition of Shakespeare'...

William Shakespeare books and illustrations Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

International Nickel Co. at the National Institute of Health. Medical staff at work VI, National Institute of Health

International Nickel Co. at the National Institute of Health. Medical ...

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Dazed and worn, bending over his cobbling work

Dazed and worn, bending over his cobbling work

(DLC/PP-1939:0060). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: People from Dickens. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935, p. 5.

One type of house that was on the land use project before development work started. Las Cruces, New Mexico

One type of house that was on the land use project before development ...

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Interior of cooperative garment factory at Jersey Homesteads, showing some of eighty homesteaders at their work and some of the ladies' coats made by them. Hightstown, New Jersey

Interior of cooperative garment factory at Jersey Homesteads, showing ...

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A man standing in front of a white house, Georgia. Farm Security Administration photograph

A man standing in front of a white house, Georgia. Farm Security Admin...

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Carpenter at work, Greenbelt, Maryland

Carpenter at work, Greenbelt, Maryland

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William Hubbard, seventy-five, and his wife, one of the oldest residents in Emmet County, Iowa. He has rented farms and also worked as hired hand, but is too old to work now. He owns one acre of land

William Hubbard, seventy-five, and his wife, one of the oldest residen...

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Monument dedicated to the copper miners of Arizona. Work of a local sculptor sponsored by Work Projects Administration. Bisbee, Arizona

Monument dedicated to the copper miners of Arizona. Work of a local sc...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

White section gang near King City, California. Before the depression this work was done entirely by Mexican labor

White section gang near King City, California. Before the depression t...

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Truck being loaded as it goes down the rows. The pickers pick the potatoes from the ground and put them in sack which is suspended from their waist between their knees after the machine has dug them from the ground. This work requires endurance but no special skill. 1937 wages: forty cents an hour. Shafter, California

Truck being loaded as it goes down the rows. The pickers pick the pota...

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Envoy and wife break ground for new Venezuelan Legation building. Washington, D.C., Dec. 29. Charge d'Affairs of Venezuela and Senora Jacinto Fombona-Pachano work the controls of shovel used in breaking ground today for erection of a new legation building at Massachusetts Ave. and California Street. The building will cost @200,000 and be completed within six months. The State Department recently announced that this country's legation in Venezuela and the Venezuelan Legation here will soon be elevated to the status of Embassies, 12/29/38

Envoy and wife break ground for new Venezuelan Legation building. Wash...

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Blacksmith at work shaping knife for farm implement. Abbeville, Louisiana

Blacksmith at work shaping knife for farm implement. Abbeville, Louisi...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Another destroyer of records. Washington, D.C., March 29. Ralph F. Smith, President of the Corporation Service Bureau, a Cleveland, Ohio, detective agency, today told the Senate Civil Liberties Committee that he has destroyed all records of his "industrial work" prior to January 1.1937. He testified he had "wiped out" all accounts, journals, correspondence, and other records pertaining to his employment by "Industrial Concerns", which had been subpoenaed by the Committee, 3/29/38

Another destroyer of records. Washington, D.C., March 29. Ralph F. Smi...

A black and white photo of a man sitting at a table. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Family moving from place to place through southern regions doing any kind of repair work near Atlanta, Georgia

Family moving from place to place through southern regions doing any k...

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Negroes waiting to go to work at one o'clock in warehouse and tobacco stem factory, Wendell, Wake County, North Carolina

Negroes waiting to go to work at one o'clock in warehouse and tobacco ...

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A black and white photo of a man standing in front of a house. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

A black and white photo of a man standing in front of a house. Great D...

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"Office politics" suggested as official is unable to account for presence of employee. Washington, D.C., March 30. The old cry of 'Office politics' was raised today as the subject of a Senatorial Investigation. Miss Bertha Longergan, Miss Margaret Stanley and Howard P. Locke are pictured at the hearing as pricipal witnesses. Miss Longergan, who described herslf as 'one of the older war horses' in her section, having served there for 18 years, and had worried herself into an appendictomy due to what she charged 'juggling' of her efficiency rating which was given as fair, while Miss Stanley's had been 'good' and 'excellent'. Miss Stanley does not have a civil service Rating, and it was brought out that she is doing work which is suposed to be done by stenographers with civil service ratings. Mr. Locke was unable to account for this fact, and denied that he had told Miss Lonergan that something might be done about her rating if she would not testify at the hearings. Mr. Locke is a Justice Department Attorney and says he also attends to 'certain personnel matters'. 3-30-39

"Office politics" suggested as official is unable to account for prese...

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Track repair work at the Bensenville yard of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul, and Pacific Railroad, Bensenville, Ill. Track repair and work on the cinder pits at the roundhouse

Track repair work at the Bensenville yard of the Chicago, Milwaukee, S...

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Itinerant statue maker putting together the pieces of a mold for one of his statues. He had been at one time an oil field worker. He said that the WPA (Work Projects Administration) had reduced the possibility of the man on the road getting a job. He said he believed he could farm if he could get a chance. Near Spiro, Oklahoma

Itinerant statue maker putting together the pieces of a mold for one o...

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was a New Deal program established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 as a response to the high unemployment during the Great Depression. The program put people t... More

Migratory agricultural laborer making toys for the WPA (Work Projects Administration) nursery school at the Agua Fria migratory labor camp. Arizona

Migratory agricultural laborer making toys for the WPA (Work Projects ...

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George Hutton, Jr., in the machine shop on his farm. He does all the work required on his farm equipment and also helps out his neighbors. Pie Town, New Mexico

George Hutton, Jr., in the machine shop on his farm. He does all the w...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

After the noon hour in the plantation yard, the mules, tractors and cultivators are taken out to finish the day's work. King and Anderson plantation, near Clarksdale. Mississippi Delta, Mississippi

After the noon hour in the plantation yard, the mules, tractors and cu...

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Sheep and goat shearers sharpening a blade while at work on a ranch of rehabilitation borrower in Kimble County, Texas

Sheep and goat shearers sharpening a blade while at work on a ranch of...

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Timbering and mill work of abandoned gold mill at Telluride, Colorado

Timbering and mill work of abandoned gold mill at Telluride, Colorado

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Trailer loaded with furniture of family about to move on in search of work picking fruit. Berrien County, Michigan

Trailer loaded with furniture of family about to move on in search of ...

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Men who work at the Navy Shipyards, Bremerton, Washington, in the community room at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) dormitories

Men who work at the Navy Shipyards, Bremerton, Washington, in the comm...

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Mrs. Agnes Usher hanging clothes at her new prefabricated house at Hazlehurst Farms Inc. She had gone to Hinesville with her husband from Baxley, Georgia to work at Camp Stewart. When his work was over they moved to Hazlehurst Farms. Hazelhurst, Georgia

Mrs. Agnes Usher hanging clothes at her new prefabricated house at Haz...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

July 24, 1941, letter from John Work to Alan Lomax

July 24, 1941, letter from John Work to Alan Lomax

Reproduced with the permission of the family of John Wesley Work III.

A black and white photo of a man in a hat. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

A black and white photo of a man in a hat. Great Depression FFSA / OWI...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a farmer, 1930s great depression, dust bowl era, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Conversion. Electric shaver plant. This New England plant, whose normal product is electric dry shavers, has now converted its facilities to the production of small, machine tool parts. This drill press which formerly made pressure pinholes in the shearing heads of shavers is now drilling center holes in spring collets which will hold the work in turning machines being made to speed the war production effort. Schick Inc., Stamford, Connecticut

Conversion. Electric shaver plant. This New England plant, whose norma...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of an office worker, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Nyssa, Oregon. FSA (Farm Security Administration) mobile camp. Japanese-Americans who do volunteer farm work and live at the camp signing the payroll. Volunteer work in connection with these people means paid work; they are guaranteed the standard local wage. They volunteered to leave the WCCA reception centers and WRA (War Relocation Authority) projects and come to the farming areas to work

Nyssa, Oregon. FSA (Farm Security Administration) mobile camp. Japanes...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Production. Milling machines and machine castings. Foundrymen make sculptures in sand more exact then many a work of art. Shown here is a rollover machine for small work. The pattern (left) is first placed face up, and the flask (iron cast on conveyor) placed over it. Special sand is tightly rammed into the flask; then this machine inverts the assembly and withdraws the pattern as shown, leaving a perfect mold. Location: a large Midwest machine tool plant

Production. Milling machines and machine castings. Foundrymen make scu...

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Detroit, Michigan. Scrap collected for salvage at a rally sponsored by the Work Projects Administration (WPA) at the state fairgrounds

Detroit, Michigan. Scrap collected for salvage at a rally sponsored by...

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Production. Airplane manufacture, general. North American Aviation employees at the Inglewood, California, plant, sign up for riders in the transportation department. The map on the rear wall helps to plan shortest routes to and from work. This plant produces the battle-tested B-25 ("Billy Mitchell") bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, and the P-51 ("Mustang") fighter plane, which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. North American Aviation emp...

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Lititz (vicinity), Pennsylvania. Boys playing near a billboard. Most of their fathers work in nearby defense plants

Lititz (vicinity), Pennsylvania. Boys playing near a billboard. Most o...

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Milking cows on the dairy farm at Iowa State College. The farm is used for both classroom work and research. Many students work here to pay their way through school. Ames, Iowa

Milking cows on the dairy farm at Iowa State College. The farm is used...

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Westly, Vernon County, Wisconsin. Arvid Grimstead, cheese maker at work on cheddar cheese at the cooperative creamery

Westly, Vernon County, Wisconsin. Arvid Grimstead, cheese maker at wor...

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Detroit, Michigan. Scrap collected for salvage at a rally sponsored by the Work Projects Administration (WPA) at the state fairgrounds

Detroit, Michigan. Scrap collected for salvage at a rally sponsored by...

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Every payday, checks are passed out to employees at their work. This prevents employees standing in long lines after work for their paychecks

Every payday, checks are passed out to employees at their work. This p...

Title and other information from caption sheet entry. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is a... More

Shasta Dam, Shasta County, California. Operator of steam shovel used for excavation work at the dam

Shasta Dam, Shasta County, California. Operator of steam shovel used f...

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Conversion. Cash registers to gun magazines. A multiple drill press operation in the making of Oerliken magazines for 20mm anti-aircraft guns. The converted cash register manufacturing plant doing the work adapted many of its regular workers and machines to the new job. National Cash Register Company, Dayton, Ohio

Conversion. Cash registers to gun magazines. A multiple drill press op...

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Decatur, Alabama. Ingalls Shipbuilding Company. Pipe fitters at work on a barge

Decatur, Alabama. Ingalls Shipbuilding Company. Pipe fitters at work o...

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Conversion. Food machinery plant. Cutting of spouts for anti-tank guns is the present work of this lathe, shown here at its former job--shaping of wooden rollers used with a belt control to carry steaks into the cube steak machine which is this New England plant's normal product. Conversion of this lathe, and the stepping up of its speed, has turned his skill from peacetime work to war production. Cube Steak Machine Company, Boston, Massachusetts

Conversion. Food machinery plant. Cutting of spouts for anti-tank guns...

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Nyssa, Oregon. FSA (Farm Security Administration) mobile camp. Japanese-American who was evacuated from a coastal area volunteered to do farm work and is now living at the camp. Sugar beet companies, faced with an acute labor shortage, sponsored the Japanese-Americans who moved into the camp

Nyssa, Oregon. FSA (Farm Security Administration) mobile camp. Japanes...

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Transformer manufacture. Building cores for power transformers is highly skilled work. A new electric steel called hipersil is used in these cores, a steel which makes it possible to build smaller cores, and therefore use less copper and steel, both virtually needed elsewhere in the war program. In addition, this hipersil carries one third more magnetic flux than ordinary steel. Westinghouse, Sharon, Pennsylvania

Transformer manufacture. Building cores for power transformers is high...

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NYA (National Youth Administration) work center, Brooklyn, New York. A Negro bench worker, who is receiving training in machine shop practice, removing the burrs from a side piece for a metal pulley block

NYA (National Youth Administration) work center, Brooklyn, New York. A...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of worker, marketplace, vendor, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Training. Work Projects Administration (WPA) vocational school. Skilled automobile mechanics are of vital importance to our nation at this time. Here, at a District of Columbia WPA vocational training school, a large class of Negroes learns auto engine repair

Training. Work Projects Administration (WPA) vocational school. Skille...

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was a New Deal program established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 as a response to the high unemployment during the Great Depression. The program put people t... More

Manpower. Handicapped workers. A victim of infantile paralysis, Robert H. Drake, twenty-six, does a job any man would be proud of. He's an expert drill press operator in a Baltimore factory which makes airplane motor parts. Despite restricted use of both legs and his right arm, Robert maintains high production standards both for speed and quality of work. White Engineering Company, Baltimore, Maryland

Manpower. Handicapped workers. A victim of infantile paralysis, Robert...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of an office worker, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Chicago, Illinois. One of the giant diesel-electric locomotives at work at an Illinois Central Railroad yard

Chicago, Illinois. One of the giant diesel-electric locomotives at wor...

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Detroit, Michigan. Scrap collected for salvage at a rally sponsored by the Work Projects Administration (WPA) at the state fairgrounds

Detroit, Michigan. Scrap collected for salvage at a rally sponsored by...

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Nyssa, Oregon (vicinity). Japanese-Americans work in sugar beet fields

Nyssa, Oregon (vicinity). Japanese-Americans work in sugar beet fields

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Subcontracting. Bogie-wheel assembly. A new jig is machined for use in the milling of a rubber plate in a bogie-wheel assembly. The work is being done in the machine shop of an Eastern subcontractor. Painesville Machine Company

Subcontracting. Bogie-wheel assembly. A new jig is machined for use in...

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Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. A burner at work in the engine room

Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. A burner at work i...

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Orange, Texas. "Sleeping fathers" nursery school. These children are at the nursery school from 8 a. m. until 4 p.m. while their fathers who work on the night shift at the shipyards get their eight hours sleep in quiet homes

Orange, Texas. "Sleeping fathers" nursery school. These children are a...

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Washington, D.C. Mr. Ben Botkin of the Library of Congress at work on his victory garden which is part of a large plot on Fairlawn Avenue, Southeast

Washington, D.C. Mr. Ben Botkin of the Library of Congress at work on ...

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Baltimore, Maryland. Men at work on the Liberty ship Frederick Douglass at the Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards

Baltimore, Maryland. Men at work on the Liberty ship Frederick Douglas...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of workers, war production, aircraft, airfield, the 1930s -1940s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A group of people sitting on the back of a truck. Office of War Information Photograph

A group of people sitting on the back of a truck. Office of War Inform...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Freight operations on the Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad between Chicago, Illinois and Hammond, Indiana. As soon as the train is under way, Conductor Cunningham gets to work on his bills and records

Freight operations on the Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad between Chicago...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of an office worker, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Turkey Pond, near Concord, New Hampshire. Women workers employed by a U.S. Department of Agriculture timber salvage sawmill. Norma Webber, eighteen year old "pit woman," used to work in a laundry. Her older sister, Barbara, also works in the sawmill

Turkey Pond, near Concord, New Hampshire. Women workers employed by a ...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

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